Homelands Dundry
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HomelandsPassivHaus (2 of 10)
A replacement family home on a steeply sloping site in a rural green belt location to the south of Bristol
The home was self-built by the client using Insulated Concrete Formwork for the main structure and including extensive dry-stone walling as a rainscreen cladding using stone excavated from the site. The home utilises a woodstove (located outside thermal envelope) and thermal store for main heating and hot water with Photovoltaics and grey-water recycling. The completed project is Carbon negative for operational energy and has been certified to Passivhaus Standard with airtightness of 0.30 ACH.
Annual CO2 emissions data (requested in kg/m2/year) was provided as follows: -1.23 t/year
Data
- Begun: Apr 2017
- Completed: Sep 2019
- Floor area: 125m2
- Sector: Residential
- Total cost: £210,000
- Funding: private
- Procurement: none - self-build
- Address: Dundry, nr Bristol, BS41, United Kingdom
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Professional Team
- Architect: gcp Chartered Architects
- Client: Private
- Structural engineer: Morgan Strucutral
- Planning supervisor: gcp Chartered Architects
- Passivhaus designer: Colin Powell
- WARM Low Energy Building Practice Air tightness te: ALDAS Paul Jennings
